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More Than Just Hair: Thinking About Shiva’s Dreadlocks and Black Bodily Integrity

More Than Just Hair: Thinking About Shiva’s Dreadlocks and Black Bodily Integrity

Nina Sharma Navigates Anti-Blackness Within Her Indian-American Family

By Nina Sharma | May 6, 2024

10 of the best author-turned-artists, ranked.

10 of the best author-turned-artists, ranked.

By Brittany Allen | May 2, 2024

Read the 1962 Short Story That Inspired This Year’s Met Gala Theme

Read the 1962 Short Story That Inspired This Year’s Met Gala Theme

J.G. Ballard’s “The Garden of Time”

By Literary Hub | May 2, 2024

How Prohibition Forever Changed Women’s Cultural Relationship with Alcohol

How Prohibition Forever Changed Women’s Cultural Relationship with Alcohol

Nicola Nice on the Hostess Langston Hughes Called the “Joy Goddess of Harlem”

By Nicola Nice | April 24, 2024

What is the point of the author interview?

What is the point of the author interview?

By Brittany Allen | April 16, 2024

A syllabus for fans of <em>You Must Remember This.</em>

A syllabus for fans of You Must Remember This.

By Brittany Allen | April 12, 2024

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Writer, Farmer, Literary Misfit: In Memory of the Late Stanley Crawford

By Alex Trimble Young | March 25, 2024

Fashionably Old: Lyn Slater on Aging With Attitude

By Lyn Slater | March 15, 2024

The Rarely Seen Color Photographs of Garry Winogrand

By Michael Almereyda | February 26, 2024

Anna Sui's new collection is inspired by Agatha Christie, so obviously the runway was at the Strand.

Anna Sui's new collection is inspired by Agatha Christie, so obviously the runway was at the Strand.

By Emily Temple | February 12, 2024

Taking Down the System, Seductively: On Women Who Use Beauty as Currency

Taking Down the System, Seductively: On Women Who Use Beauty as Currency

Celine Saintclare Recommends Mona Awad, Emma Cline, Frances Cha, and More

By Celine Saintclare | January 12, 2024

More Than Meets the Eye: On the Ancient Origins and Diverse Uses of Eyeliner

More Than Meets the Eye: On the Ancient Origins and Diverse Uses of Eyeliner

Zahra Hankir Explores the Cosmetic’s Relationship with Beauty, Power and Spirituality

By Zahra Hankir | December 5, 2023

Walden, Freestyled: Reimagining and Reclaiming What It Means to Be Black in Nature

Walden, Freestyled: Reimagining and Reclaiming What It Means to Be Black in Nature

Edward Moreta Jr. on White Western Nature Writing, JID's 29 (Freestyle), and Longing for Black Representation in Wild Settings

By Edward Moreta Jr. | December 4, 2023

Graffiti Gentrification: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore on the Exploitation of Basquiat

Graffiti Gentrification: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore on the Exploitation of Basquiat

Considering Boom for Real: The Late-Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat While Walking Through Baltimore

By Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore | November 30, 2023

Dissenting in Style: How Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Collars Became Political Signifiers

Dissenting in Style: How Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Collars Became Political Signifiers

Elinor Carucci and Sara Bader on RBG's Decision to Buck the Supreme Court's Sartorial Traditions

By Elinor Carucci and Sara Bader | November 13, 2023

Dwight Garner on the Long History of Writers and America's Greatest Invention, the Martini

Dwight Garner on the Long History of Writers and America's Greatest Invention, the Martini

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